Meta To End Ban On Word ‘Martyr’ After Year-Long Review
2024-07-02 18:25:24 Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. (Representational) Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would lift its blanket ban on the word “shaheed”, or “martyr” in…
Instagram Suffer Major Outage Globally, Including In India
2024-06-29 08:41:33 About 58 per cent reported problems with the feed. New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram on Saturday suffered a major outage globally, including in India, as thousands of users were…
Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April
2024-06-02 08:15:21 Meta shared the data in its monthly report. (representational) New Delhi: Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for…
Instagram Testing Support for Cross-Posting Images to Threads: Report
2024-05-09 09:18:48 Threads — Meta’s microblogging service that competes with X (formerly Twitter) — could add support for cross-posting content from Instagram. According to a report, some accounts have been…
Threads Testing Real-Time Search Results for Some Users, Instagram Head Adam Mosseri Confirms
2024-04-17 14:18:08 Threads is testing a feature that allows users to see real-time search results on their feeds. The service has introduced the feature for some users and is expected…
Meta Seeks Opinion On Action Against AI Images Of Indian, US Celebrities
2024-04-16 17:25:48 The Oversight Board did not mention the name or details of the celebrities. New Delhi: Social media giant Meta’s Oversight Board has invited public comments to decide on…
Meta Shuts Down Misinformation Monitoring Tool In Poll Year
2024-04-01 03:26:38 Washington: A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will…
Why Is Shaheed An Issue For Facebook, Instagram? Meta Urged To Lift Ban
2024-03-28 06:55:08 The oversight board, monitoring content on Meta’s platforms, is calling on the company to relax its restrictions on the Arabic word “shaheed” meaning “martyr” in English. After serious…
WhatsApp Now Lets Users Pin Multiple Messages in Chats: How to Use Feature
2024-03-25 06:14:01 WhatsApp rolled out the feature to pin messages in individual as well as group chats in December 2023. The pinned messages would appear at the top of the…
Microsoft, Meta and X Join Fortnite Maker Epic Games' Battle Against Apple
2024-03-21 09:02:12 Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Elon Musk’s X and Match Group on Wednesday joined “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games’ protest that Apple has failed to honor a court-ordered injunction…